The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-08-27
TERRIBLE sUFFERINGS.
THE WHOLE BODY THE SEAT OF
INTENSE PEN.


In Quantity-A Case that Puzzled the
Learned Doctors of Gotham-The Remedy
Discovered by tho Explosion OF q Lamp
The Body Must Be Subjected to the Pain
Of Burning to Relieve the Torture from
Some Unknown Cause.
It is rare thing in medicine whom .
set Of symptoms appear which can not
be explained. Through the ignorance
Of physicians at times cases will be
diagnosed wrong, and symptoms viii
be misinterpreted and taken to mean
something other than the true disease,
but when physicians who are erudite
and know about all that there Is to be
known in defining symptoms and CIV
ing the proper treatment fail to give q
name to the disease from which an In
dividual is suffering, then the disease
may be considered more than passing
strange and worthy to take place
among the unexplained freaks of
nature. There is such a case at St.
Elizabeth Hospital, New York, says q
special to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The patient is a woman named Jane
Horibeck. She is of slight build. has
black hair and eyes, an unusually
heavy growth of hair upon the face,
especially on the upper lip and has a
big head and large bones covered with
small muscles. Her ailment began
some time ago, its commencement be-
ing dated as near as it can be fixed to
an injury to her spine. While leaning
out of a window she lost her balance
and fell about twenty feet to the pave
ment On her way dawn she struck o
heavy wire clothes.line. The wire cut
into the small of her back, and threw
her so she landed on her knees. She
was unconscious of the shock for sew
eral hours. and the only injury besides
the severe laceration in the spine was
dislocated shoulder. The dislocation
was reduced by the woman's family
physician. and 1t was expected that she
would be all right in few days.
She was keptin bed all the time, and
about a week after she was hurt she
complained of q severe pain in the
spine In the lower part over q space
that seemed to her to be round and
about the size Of silver dollar.
IT WAS A HOT, BuRINe PAIN,
And the sensation as described by her
was as II there was something eating
through the flesh like an acid. Irrita-
ton by rubbing and several ointments
and plasters were put upon the spine
where the pain was located, but it re-
NAMED there all the time without the
slightest abatement In fact. tho ex-
tent of the pain surface increased,
seeming to follow in the line of cir
Gle. The flesh where the pain was did
not show the slightest change in color,
being perfectly natural and without
any apparent increase or diminution in
the temperature. The pain seemed to
start from q common center and to
move around the circle from left to
right.
At the end of three months the entire
back had been brought within the cir
conference of pain, and the woman's
sufferings were terrible, but this was
as nothing as to what she had yet to un-
dergo.
Whatever the cause of the pain, 1t
gradually got better and stronger
hold on the nerves and muscles of the
body, and spread to the chest and abb
domen. When the entire trunk had be-
come subject to its influence. the wo-
man had to be kept under the soothing
power of opiates. and when the effect
Of the medicine would pass away she
would be driven into delirious state
by the horrible sensation. The pain
started in the back and passed around
the body, and tho woman felt as II she
was being consumed by fire.
THE HEART BECAME AFFECTED.
Il beat feebly, and would palpitate in
distressing manner at the least exertion.
Air going into the lungs appeared to be
red hot, and the respiration was alter
natoly above and below the normal.
Above tho waist the flesh was covered
with cold sweat while the legs were
dry and hot, and frequently of a DEATH
ly pale color. There was no such
thing as digestion. Whatever food was
given, no matter how simple it might
be, gave rise to great distress, and was